Wealth Building Strategies in Energy, Metals, and Other Markets -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Musical Rainman -- Internal iPod -- The Rhythmical Economist -- Super Dome of Finance -- Dot.com-Dot.bomb -- Part I: SUCCESSFUL INVESTING -- Chapter 1: Winning Formula -- The Market Trend Enigma -- Simply Unpredictable -- Pareto-Waltzek Hypothesis -- The Soros Counterattack -- Chapter 2: Money Machine -- Go Investing -- Money Management -- Straight-A-Itis -- Determining Market Trend -- The GSR Goldilocks Trading System (GGTSTM) -- Enhanced System Entries -- Enhanced System Exits -- Nothing Succeeds Like Success -- Trend Portfolio Insurance -- An Orderly Walk up Trend Street -- Chapter 3: Gold Bonanza -- A Brief History of Markets -- To Buy or Not to Buy Precious Metals -- The Investment Solution -- Conclusions and Opportunities -- Chapter 4: Inflation-Deflation -- The National Razor -- Let Them Eat McDonald's -- Revenge of the Greenback -- Will the True M3 Figure Please Stand Up? -- The Dismal Deflationists -- The China Connection -- The Great Lakes Effect -- Banker, Can You Spare a Loan? -- Bernanke vs. the Great Roubini -- Inflation-Shortages and Riots -- Surviving Inflation-Related Shortages -- Fat-Free Farm -- Survival Spud -- Chapter 5: Energy Crisis -- The Oil Crisis Strikes Back -- Energy Crisis Solutions-The Smart Money Knows Best -- Up, Up, and Away . . . -- Chapter 6: Sun Tzu-The Art of Profits -- The Pen Is Mightier Than Gunpowder -- Across the Pond -- Sun Tzu Investing -- Sayonara -- Part II: THE HOUSING BUBBLE -- Chapter 7: The Real Estate Mania -- The Great Crash of 2000 -- Do Home Prices Always Go Up? -- Lender Implosion -- Fed Wheel of Misfortune -- Chapter 8: House of Cards -- Worst Housing Crash in History -- Flip-Floppers -- Turning Japanese -- California Dreaming -- Trail of Foreclosure Tears -- Her Name Is REO.

Chapter Foreclosure -- Chapter 9: Mortgage Contagion -- Not So Prime Time Mortgages -- We Can Do This -- Typhoon Option Only -- Carnivorous Loans -- Renters' Paradise -- Global Housing Contagion-Across The Subprime Pond -- Chapter 10: Mortgage Epidemic -- The MBS Story -- Liar's Loans -- Upside Down -- Shiller Knows Best -- No One Suffers Like the Poor -- Zero Monthly Payments -- Chapter 11: The Ideal House Price -- Three Times Method (3xs) -- Thirty Percent Solution -- 100 Times Rent Method (100xs) -- Rent or Own? A Real-World Example -- Part III: BANKING-SUPER PROFITS -- Chapter 12: American Central Banks -- Financial Shock and Awe -- The Savings and Loss Crisis -- (Dollar) Bill and Ted (Rothschild's) Excellent Adventure -- American Central Banks -- The Fed Emperor Has No Clothes -- Chapter 13: GSEs and FDIC -- Banking Bubble, Toil and Trouble -- Government-Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs)- Frankin-Mae and Frankin-Mac -- FDIM: The Federal Deposit Insurance Mattress -- While Bernanke Fiddled, the Banks Burned -- Chapter Bailout -- Chapter 14: Fed Speak -- Fed Speak -- Federal Funds Forecasts -- Ben ''Gutenberg'' Bernanke and Hank '' Bazooka'' Paulson -- Saving for a Rainy Decade -- Wrap Up -- Chapter 15: Banks and Bailouts -- Red Sky at Morning, Banker's Warning -- Safe as Money in the Bank? -- Bank Bailouts -- Chapter 16: Credit Cards -- Surgeon General's Warning -- Plastic Explosives -- Building Credit=Building Debt -- Plastic Savings Accounts -- Pocket Loan Machines -- Debt End Street -- Plastic Bankruptcy Cards -- Debt: A Four-Letter Word -- He Who Spends Least, Wins -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: Wealth Building Strategies -- About the Author -- Index.